Mariam Elsharnoby

“Jonathan nu prea știa să dialogheze. Considera că discuția era făcută pentru a servi ca vas comunicant. Există unul care știe ceva, vasul plin, și unul care nu știe, vasul gol, acesta fiind de obicei chiar el.
Cel care nu știe e numai urechi și ațâță din când în când râvna interlocutorului prin „și?”, „vorbește-mi de asta” și mișcări din cap.”
― Bernard Werber, Empire of the Ants

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller